Untitled (Mission San José de Laguna)

1926

Raymond Jonson

(American, 1891–1982)

Culture

America

Medium

lithographic crayon on paper

Measurements

Matted: 40.6 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 x 41 cm (11 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift from Gwen Fate and Kevin Henegar 2023.27

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Raymond Jonson was involved with the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico from 1938 until he dissolved the group in 1942.

Description

With roots in Chicago theater design, Raymond Jonson moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1920s, cofounding the Transcendental Painting Group, which was dedicated to expressing imaginative and spiritual realms through abstract art. Jonson made this drawing depicting an adobe church shortly after moving to the southwest, and before he turned entirely to abstraction. The spare, modernist aesthetic of Jonson’s style matches the austere adobe structure.